Edgar Faure

Edgar Faure
Faure at the 1955 Geneva Summit
Prime Minister of France
In office
23 February 1955 – 1 February 1956
PresidentRené Coty
Preceded byPierre Mendès France
Succeeded byGuy Mollet
In office
20 January 1952 – 8 March 1952
PresidentVincent Auriol
Preceded byRené Pleven
Succeeded byAntoine Pinay
President of the National Assembly
In office
2 April 1973 – 2 April 1978
Preceded byAchille Peretti
Succeeded byJacques Chaban-Delmas
Personal details
Born
Edgar Jean Faure

18 August 1908
Béziers, France
Died30 March 1988(1988-03-30) (aged 79)
7th arrondissement of Paris, France
Political partyRadical Party (1929–1956; 1958–1965; 1977–1988)
Other political
affiliations
Union for the New Republic (1965–1967)
Union of Democrats for the Republic (1967–1977)
Rally for the Republic (1977)
SpouseLucie Meyer

Edgar Jean Faure (French: [ɛdɡaʁ ʒɑ̃ fɔʁ] ; 18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956.[1][2] Prior to his election to the National Assembly for Jura under the Fourth Republic in 1946, he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) in Algiers (1943–1944). A Radical, Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer. In 1978, he was elected to the Académie Française.

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